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  • adjective archaic Pregnant.

Etymologies

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From enwomb.

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Examples

  • If someone had told me this while I was safely enwombed in the castle at Mueller, I would have laughed.

    Enjoyment 2010

  • Bollywoods Most Wanted barefeet blogger in the soul of a sculpted rock indigenous like entombed neither this nor that a pedestrian poet he bloomed tryst with destiny capsized and doomed bejeweled moments sartorial spirituality packaged costumed link after link on a facebook mushroomed a twittering tragedy a madman of mumbai assumed words words more words enwombed from his deadwood body after his death as poetic testimony of ill fate exhumed posthumously phantasmagorically perfumed

    Archive 2009-10-01 photographerno1 2009

  • The Australian government is advising citizens that everyone should be counted in the August 8th census — even the recently enwombed.

    Get Born, Get a Free T-Shirt 2006

  • However, at birth our enwombed paradise is shattered as we are bombarded by light, noise, hunger and pain - for the first time.

    Peter Wolson: America's Racism: Hatred of "The Other" in the 2008 Presidential Election 2008

  • Trelawny, who thrusts his hand through the wall of the poet's body and delivers it of its previously enwombed form, gives birth to a Shelley possessed of a great heart, and purchases his own mobility in the process.

    Shelley's Pod People 2005

  • Stereo-imaging technology and tactile-feedback manipulators let prospective parents "feel" enwombed foetuses.

    Boing Boing: May 12, 2002 - May 18, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Each time she rounds a bend, she prays the boy will be there, enwombed in fog, casting, casting for fish, casting for her.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • Each time she rounds a bend, she prays the boy will be there, enwombed in fog, casting, casting for fish, casting for her.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • Each time she rounds a bend, she prays the boy will be there, enwombed in fog, casting, casting for fish, casting for her.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • Here, they were at peace, enwombed in the buoyant water.

    The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990

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